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“of unresolved grief, large and small, of others assuming that he, beautiful Black person in gorgeous Black body, was born violent and dangerous; this assumption, impossible to hide, manifesting in every word and glance and action, and every word and glance and action ingested and internalized, and it’s unfair and unjust, this sort of death”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“There’s so much more you wish to say but there aren’t the words.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“This was his old accent, his Virginia accent, as warming to Ronan as the sun.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren

“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water